Need help in dealing with Crane Flies

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sagewoodfarm Benton City, WA(Zone 6a) Feb 19, 2006

I live in Washington (Eastern) State where we are having a problem with Crane Flies. http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0856/eb0856.html

Everything that I plant is eaten up before it gets over an inch high. I've been collecting small yogurt containers all year to use as collars on my plants but know I will also have to use strips of cardboard to set them in. I used that method last year. I had to replant things 3 times and eventually sewed my seeds in flats and transplanted them after they had grown a bit taller. Beans, carrots, beets, cucumbers, melons, mainly seemed to be what they liked.

Last fall the amount of flies seemed to be reduced allot, so I'm hoping our chickens have been eating them and decreasing the population of CF significantly.

I'm wondering if any of you have any other ideas as to how to deal with them. Such as nifty collars or barriers to keeping them out? Or any other imaginative ideas.

Thanks for any ideas you could give me.
Sagewood Farm

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